Bilbo's Great Adventure Lyrics
Bilbo’s Great Adventure
c 1992, 1999 by Kevin Henry
Rivendell lyrics c 1992 by Greg Orr
Published by Warm Weather Music Company, LLC
Based on “The Hobbit”
c 1937, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Published by Ballantine Books
1. QUIET COMFORT (Narrative and Instrumental)
Bilbo baggins was a Hobbit and, like all hobbits, wanted to be left
along in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a
band of homeless dwarves and soon Bilbo was drawn into their theivery
quest facing evil Orcs, giant spiders, savage wolves and worse unknown
dangers. All this just for stealing back their gold. But Bilbo gains
in more ways than gold. Well, you'll see whether or not he's gained.
In the end, it is Bilbo alone and unaided who gets to confront the
great dragon Smaug, the terror of the entire countryside ....
2. HE DIDN’T WANT TO GO
Back in the Third Age of time before our records show,
There lived a fellow half my size, a quiet, lazy soul.
And he didn’t want to go in search of Dragons and Gold.
But an old man said to him, “Come on! Let’s begin.”
3. DARED AND SCARED
Strapped to their backs are woolen sacks;
They’re ready to hit the road.
Thirteen Dwarves and a Wizard in gray, but
“Where is Bilbo?
Where he’s going, he don’t really know.
A burglar, dared and scared, he don’t want to go.
He don’t want to go. He don’t need to know. You know,
He wants to stay at home and “let them run the show.”
But the wizard said, “Get out of bed! Let’s go.”
4. BAND OF “FOOLS”
Walking down the road in the wake of June,
Picking at trees, singing lazy tunes,
Walking by day and sleeping by the midnight moon.
Playing the game by no one’s rules, ‘Silly,” he
thought,
“Just like a band of fools.”
Hoping for the ways and stays at home real soon.
And he didn’t want to go.
Hanging by his toes in the hand of a troll,
He wishes he were back home.
Saved by Gandalf and the rising sun,
The mountain men are turned to stone.
Instead of being meal they find gold to steal
Hidden in the old troll cave.
Sword for Thorin, Bilbo’s dagger is Sting,
But not a bite to eat for days.
So how will the company go in search for Dragons and Gold?
5. RIVENDELL
In the secret valley lives Elrond the wise.
Few mortal eyes have seen this place.
Beneath the Misty Mountains, in Rivendell, lies
There they keep the fires, the fires of ancient days.
Gandalf The Gray, knowing secret ways,
Leads the homeless company to elven halls.
Last Homely House east of the sea
There dwarf and hobbit may let their cares fall.
The company grows strong under elven care.
The journey they will dare must again begin.
Thorin bears the map and key that under Elven moon
Reveals hidden runes of the journey’s end.
Lonely Mountain secret - backdoor to Smaug’s hall.
Dwarf treasure calls travelers away
To cross the Misty Mountains where the Goblins stay
If the gray Wizard ... can find a way.
6. BAND OF “FOOLS” REVISITED
Climbing hills east they go leaving that land he loves, and
More than sad, the weather’s bad. They need a roof above them.
They find a cave by luck.
Well, fire and rain all around them fell.
“What’s goin’ on?” really, who can ever
tell?
A snap and a crack and “Good-bye good ol’ world.”
The devils of darkness slipping down their ways
With gifts they hurry down to where the leader stays.
A slap ‘cross the back makes you hurry down to their world.
And he didn’t want to go ....
7. THE COMPANY WILL HAVE TO FOLD
Looks like the end is coming;
The company will have to fold.
Their hole card is their last play
And Gandalf the “free” plays mercilessly.
He lays the devil down cold
And the blackness fills in the darkness
While the smoke fills up their eyes.
The Wizard that he is now leads them on.
Using his blade he lights the way.
His blade light dies with the cries.
But the demons are quick to catch them.
“Slip behind,” the runners are told.
Bilbo last, not half as fast,
A dwarf so brave helps him on his way
But he’s knocked down on the ground cold.
8. THE METAL RING
And he looks around. can’t even see the ground.
His head is spinning ‘round. He thinks about his home.
He find a thing - a metal ring.
He plays the “riddle game.” Wins by chance once again.
Runs as fast as he can ‘till he falls but now unseen.
Gollum runs by, begins to cry, “My ring!”
And Bilbo plays his card - he jumps over Gollum’s arms
And fools the backdoor guard leaving poor Gollum behind.
Slips through the door, seen no more.
9. THE EDGE OF THE WILD
The Goblins are coming so they race the sun.
The dawn of dusk will see them on the run.
They’re all alive out on the other side
But they wont be long when the Wargs divide.
The “birds of no feather” all flocking together
On high.
The featherless birds in five fir trees,
The Goblins coming fast just like a swarm of bees.
The Wizard tries to burn the Wargs with magical flame
But the Goblins come and light the trees and burn him at his game.
The Eagles on high see the flashing colored lights
And they fly.
Their leader swoops to grab the Wizard as he starts to fall.
The rest of the birds follow, saving them all.
Bilbo hangs on for his scared, skinny life.
He closes his eyes, he always was afraid of heights.
The eagle is swift, sets him on the cliff
And Bilbo sighs.
10. ON THEIR OWN
Take a free ride to the stone
Called The Carrock by Boern,
A bear so great, or a man in a cape,
You never want to face him alone.
They trick him, he invites them in,
They feast away their fast all day.
With rest and aid, they go on their way.
They try but the Wizard won’t stay.
They now must go and try their luck on their own.
They whine and moan, they don’t want to go alone.
Gandalf said, “Now don’t you see? It’s not really
up to me.
I’ve got to go though we might meet eventually.
I’ve got to go so we might meet eventually.
11. THROUGH THE MIRKWOOD FOREST
They’re near the forest of the Mirkwood Trees
And Gandalf says, “good-bye.”
They beg him to stay but he’s on his way
So they go alone and try to get
By the forest on a path where no one goes, to get
Through the forest out to where the green grass grows.
They travel along without a song
For the forest scares them so.
The pairs of eyes of unseen spies
Of the forest pop and glow.
Everything goes smooth at first
Until they meet the stream.
They use a boat to avoid the spell
The enchanted waters bring ‘cause when you
Drink from the forest, “The waters will make you dream.”
When you’re
Bitten by the forest, “So happy you will seem.”
“Oops! He fell! He’s under spell!”
And Bombur goes to sleep.
They carry him now each taking turns
But still the path they keep. For to the
Path of the forest, you have to keep or die. “Keep to the
Path of the forest or kiss yourselves good-bye'.”
Without the sun and when the food is done
They finally lose their heads.
Feast of Elves? They invite themselves but
“Poof,” three times instead.
Bilbo wakes in time. He shakes
The Spider and “stings” him still.
At least four score, and maybe more,
They love to catch and kill. For they are
Spiders in the forest, giants in the land of trees. They are
Spiders in the forest, hissing like a bunch of bees.
Bilbo sees the bonded dwarves
All hung from spiders’ string.
He sings insults they hate so much,
They chase him as he sings. On a
Trip through the forest, he leads them all away. On a
Trip through the forest, doubles back and slips away.
Bilbo frees the bonded dwarves
And fights returning foe.
Retreating from the spiders’ nest,
All the time he deals them blows that the
Spiders in the forest hate with a passion so. That the
Spiders in the forest give up and let them go.
12. UNSEEN IN THE ELVEN KINGDOM
They’re marched through the forest by the Elves to the Elven
King.
He locks ‘em in the dungeon ‘cause they won’t
tell the King anything
Of their long-lost treasure and the promise they intend to bring
Of return to glory in the story that the people all sing.
They don’t know Bilbo unseen with the shaded eye.
He thinks of a plan but the Dwarves don’t understand “why
They got to be packed, then racked in the water to die
Of the cold and wet?” You bet you better tell them why.
Bouncing on the water and bumping down the river inside
The barrels in which the dwarves are barely alive.
Of course, poor Bilbo, they left him to ride outside.
Still, their hating is waiting if only they arrive alive.
13. THE KEY IS IN THE SETTING SUN
There’s a party in town, “What’s going down?”
People all dancing in the street
Singing songs so old ‘bout the rivers of gold
Pouring out from the mountain’s feet.
The Dwarves, though new, make time so few
When Dragons are laughed out loud.
The Laketown Men are glad to send
Them off to part the mountain’s cloud.
The journey is slow. The river don’t flow
Up to where the mountain lay.
The Laketown Men go south again.
Dragon fear leads the way.
With the map of lore they find the door
And with the key and the setting sun,
It opens wide. Lets the dark outside.
The Burglar’s job’s begun.
14. BURGLAR’S JOB HAS BEGUN
He looks around. He can’t even see the ground.
Decides to go down the Secret Way Of Kings.
Slips through the door. Seen no more.
He wears the Golden Ring. Heads for the glowing thing.
Thinks twice but loosens Sting. He thinks about his home.
The throbbing sound grows with the heat and the firey glow.
And Bilbo wins right here. Overcomes his Baggins’ fear
And chances on his life so dear. He comes to the Hall Of Gold.
Upon the gold, the flesh of the Dragon glows.
15. HE’S IN THE HALL OF GOLD
Bilbo sticks his head into the secret hall.
The riches of the room lay from wall to wall.
The Dragon lay asleep upon the heap of gold.
He wears a suit of precious stones that sparkle and glow.
Bilbo steals around, picks a pitcher off the ground
And slips away.
Smaug wakes up to find the cup is gone.
The mountain shook. The party looks. Something’s gone wrong.
The Dragon scours the mountainside for the sneaky one.
The death of the thief, so bold, who stole his gold, will come.
Dwarves huddle in the bay, with the door in the way.
The Dragon flies away.
Bilbo goes down again to see what he could see.
Smaug knows he enters though he doesn’t seem to be.
A Dragon sense of smell can tell a traitor in the lair.
Bilbo plays the dragon’s game and finds a spot that's bare.
The Dragon’s armors’ got a hole
And little Bilbo Baggins knows
He’s got to get away!
The Dragon scorches Bilbo as he races up the hall.
Bilbo loses all his hair and struggles not to fall.
He’s greeted by the eager Dwarves to tell them all his tale.
He begs them to close the door or soon, Smaug will avail.
His green and ruby flame scorch the mountainside in vain.
The Dragon flies away.
16. THEY ROAM THE ROOM
They huddle on the floor and look for the door
Trapped in the Secret Way Of Kings.
They sit and stay just waiting for the day,
Waiting for the death Smaug brings.
They think he’s coming, “He’s gonna come real
soon.”
But there is no sound so they head straight down their “tomb.”
And there’s no light to see. Wonder where Smaug can be?
They roam that room of gold, so cold, so impatiently.
The way is clear. They forget their fear to be.
17. BARD HEARS THE THRUSH
The Lake-town Men see the lightening
Coming from the mountain as gold.
They dance and sing what the Dwarves did bring.
“The gold,” Bard said, “is the light I dread.
The light’s not right. Smaug’s not dead!”
And the firey light grows stronger
As Smaug flies swift and sure.
Grim Bard said, “We’ll all be dead
If we don’t wet the town and break the bridge down.”
He tells his men, “Fight to the end!”
And Smaug comes hot and angry.
He smotes the town with his tail.
He brings quick death with his scorching breath.
A bird tells Bard what he has heard.
“Bilbo found a bare spot on his left breast!”
So Bard sends the arrow screaming
Straight for the Dragons’ breast
So fierce its flight, turns out the light
Of Smaug so old, as he hit the cold
Water turned to steam that night.
18. THE PRICELESS GEM
Bilbo walked upon a mountain of gold.
The wonder of its beauty stories never really told.
His light danced in the night as he headed for the light that glowed.
The priceless Gem was just a sight to see.
He put it in his pocket and he kept it secretly
Though Thorin didn’t know so he looked for it eagerly.
And he didn’t want to go in search for Dragons and Gold.
Now the Gold lay in front of him. But where is the Dragon?
19. GOLD DEALS AREN’T MADE
The Lakemen’s town - it’s all broken down.
People gather on the west shore.
They cry through the night and talk about the light
From the mountain and the mountain’s lore.
The Mirkwood Elves heard themselves from the Birds of the Dragon’s
end
But they turn from the mountain and head to the scene
Of destruction that the Dragon did bring.
They bury their dead then a host is led
Straight through the Baron Lands
Where they settle in the bay with a lake in the way
And a wall they don’t understand.
You see, the Dwarves were told by the Birds,
“That many old claims by all will be laid.”
So they built the wall where they’re ready to fall.
“The Dwarves’ gold deals aren’t made.”
20. YOU DID THE RIGHT THING AGAIN
They’re fast asleep and Bilbo creeps
Over the wall to find
A way to end the fight - he’s got the Gem so bright,
The stone that’s on Thorin’s mind.
He’s taken by the Mirkwood Elves
And brought to the camp of Men.
They stare in awe at the gem they saw.
“Now Thorin will bargain!”
Bilbo, you did the right thing again.
Bilbo, I knew you would in the end.
“Hey! I’m Gandalf! Can’t you see? Stick out the
times to be
And Bilbo, we might even meet again.
Bilbo, you might even see the end.”
21. NOW LET’S BARGAIN!
Thorin is shown his long-sought Arkenstone.
He said, “how does it come by you?”
Bilbo said, “I’m guilty to give it away. That’s
my share
And I don’t care to fight and watch the day
End in dismay. Sorry, but I gave my share away.”
Bilbo is told that now he’ll get no Gold.
A traitor by Thorin,
Good Bard said, “Now let’s bargain. Give us our share
And we’ll go for we don’t care to take your wealth away.
We’ll be on our way. You’ll get your stone when we get
our pay.”
Dain marched all night. Thorin hoped to win the fight
with help from his kin.
Get the stone and give nothing! Dain came that morn.
He sees his foe and gives them warn’
Nothing stops him today. “You’ll have to pay.”
Thorin’s called and Dain must pave the way.
Bard blocked the way for Dain, marched with the break of day.
The battle’s about begun
But the sky turns black where the sun had shown.
A cloud of bats had come
And underneath shown glimmering teeth.
The Goblins all had come. Wolves and Wargs are on the run.
The Battle of Five Armies had begun!
22. THE BATTLE
Gandalf calls a halt to the assault of Dain.
Council is made right on the open plain.
They plan to trap their foe between the mountainsides.
A thunder passed that brought the bats and Goblins soon arrive.
Bilbo disappears. He doesn’t want to be near
The fight below.
The Goblins run a wild race between the hills.
Elves meet them first with their arrows and spears.
They fill the valley full with Goblin dead.
They swing their gleaming swords that the Goblins dread.
The rocks are stained black but the Goblins fight back
And hold their ground.
Dwarves and Men come from the other hill.
Panic comes upon their foe and many fled until
The Goblins climb the mountain from the other side.
They come like a wave of an endless black tide.
The smell of victory now a faint memory,
The day wears on.
The King from the Mountain charged but could not hold
Back the crashing blows from the guards of Bolg.
The Goblins circle ‘round and begin to gnaw away
At the ranks of the Dwarves and Men about to give away.
Bilbo looks in misery. “Why does it have to be
And end this way?”
Bilbo looks into the west and thought he could see
Shapes dark and small yet they fly majestically.
“The eagles have come,” echo's the valley below.
Line after line they swoop upon their doomed foe.
Bilbo hits the ground when a stone hits his crown, he knows no more.
Bilbo hits the ground, no more sight, no more sound,
He knows no more.
23. FAREWELL, GOOD THIEF
Bilbo wakes upon the hill alone.
His head is burning. He is chilled as stone.
He looks in the valley and sees that his side has won.
He’s carried by a Man to the camp below
Where he meets the Wizard and is told to go
To see Thorin as he lay from many a blow.
Thorin says, “Farewell, good Thief. I’m sorry for my
words
And my terrible deeds. I want to be your friend as I leave.”
Bilbo kneels down, says, “I’m glad to be ‘round
To share your journey.”
Bilbo turns away, weeps away the day; says,
“Glad he died a friend to me.”
Bilbo longs for return to home.
He says his good-bye and when all in done
He packs up light and he heads for the setting sun.
Gandalf The Gray rides by his side.
The journey is long yet they enjoy the ride.
But Bilbo yearns for home so deep inside.
He didn’t want to go. He didn’t have to show
But he showed them.
He really wanted to stay, but Gandalf The Gray said,
“Go there and back again.”
Don’t disbelieve the prophesies
Just because you lived all these
Adventures and escapes and walked so tall.
It was your luck and it was your hand
But when you look back you’ll understand,
“Your quite a little fellow in a wide world after all.”
24. YOU’RE NOT WHO YOU ONCE WERE
Back in the Third Age of time before our records show,
There lived a fellow half my size, a quiet, lazy soul.
And many years ago he searched for Dragons and Gold.
Now Gandalf said to him, “You’re a hero now, Baggins.”
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